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Project PRISM Optronics: Protection & Surveillance. Dr Dirk Bezuidenhout CSIR. Universities Involved. Stellenbosch Physics (Dr E Rohwer) Process Eng (Prof H Knoetze) NMMU Physics (Prof J Engelbrecht) Rhodes Chemistry (Prof T Nyokong) UKZN Computer Science (Prof J-R Tapamo)
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Project PRISMOptronics: Protection & Surveillance Dr Dirk Bezuidenhout CSIR
Universities Involved • Stellenbosch • Physics (Dr E Rohwer) • Process Eng (Prof H Knoetze) • NMMU • Physics (Prof J Engelbrecht) • Rhodes • Chemistry (Prof T Nyokong) • UKZN • Computer Science (Prof J-R Tapamo) • Physics (Dr V Couling)
Universities Involved • UJ • Electr. & Electronic Eng. (Dr W Clarke) • UP • Mathematics (Dr R Anguelov) • TUT • French South African Technical Institute in Electronics (Prof B van Wyk)
Number of Students • Nine Departments • Eight Disciplines • Number of Students: 22
PRISM-L: Lasers • Light Sources • Countermeasures • Beam Propagation
Pyrophorics • Interface with Project COUPLE
PRISM-M Layout: Missile optics
InAs1-XSbX 0.45 3000 3.537 μm 0.35 4000 4.218 μm Wavelength [nm] Bandgap Energy [eV] 0.25 5000 Lattice-matched to GaSb 2 K 6000 8000 0.15 10000 300 K 15000 0.0 0.089 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 InAs Sb mole fraction x InSb Bandgap Modification Bandgap spans strategic 3-7 μm range at low T
p:InAsSb n:InAs n:GaSb Substrate Backside Illumination Development of InAs0.91Sb0.09/GaSb backside-illuminated detector λcut-off ~3.6 μm at 77 K
Optical Limiters: Electronic structure • 2 photon absorption • Singlet states S, triplets T • Cross sections σ • Inter-System Crossing • Desirable properties: • high triplet quantum yield σex >> σg • rapid inter-system crossing • a long lifetime τT in the triplet state • optical stability • High damage thresholds for the material
Metallo-phthalocyanines, MPc Axial substituent Peripheral substituent Unsubstituted MPc Substituted MPc
Symmetry C2v dome shape is energy minimum C2v
Discreet Pulse Transforms • Develop a method for the decomposition of images into 2D block pulses • Analysis of sea images via discrete pulse decomposition • Characterization of the images of marine background in varying conditions • Developing algorithms for identifying anomalies in a sea image • Algorithms for target detection using the discrete pulse decomposition of the image
Solving the Heat Scintillation Problem in Images(Rishaad Abdoola)
Stress Induced Birefringence Birefringence Map for doublet